Why did they call Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh?

Answer 1

The author of the original Winnie the pooh books, A. A. Milne, named his main character after a teddy bear that his son owned.

Answer 2

Well you see when to pooh bears really love each other they start to have relations and soon the mama bear gets really fat and about 9 months later out comes a another pooh bear and they thinks hes a winner so they named him Winnie then they all lived happily ever after repeating this cycle again and again

Answer 3

The author made it up. It doesn't make sense. I have heard Pooh used ( outside the context of the cartoon bear) as a put-down like ( Pfooey!) At this juncture I might remark that Pfooey- various spellings is derived from the French word meaning- Goose! A negative feature of WTP is that the primary comedy device is spelling errors and nobody corrects them. Really, what is so funny about basic English words such as House, Honey, Tiger and stretching things- Hee-Haw ( for a donkey"s bray) being misspelled as Howse, Tigger, Hunny, etc. Illiteracy is no laughing matter. I could see some of this with Older comics such as Li"l Abner but not on the preschool level. While we are at A.A. Milne created Winnie-The=Pooh in the 20"s.

Answer 4

He was called Edward Bear but in the stories the reason he is called Pooh, is because he kept trying to blow honey bees off his nose and made that noise.

Answer

He was named after a black bear in the London zoo. The bear was brought to England by a Canadian soldier who named him after his hometown, Winnipeg.

Answer 5

Milne gave his son a toy bear for his first birthday on Aug. 21, 1921. But that bear wasn't named Winnie; he was initially called Edward. The name Winnie came later, from a brown bear that young Christopher Robin Milne visited in London Zoo. Harry Colebourn, a Canadian lieutenant and veterinary surgeon, had brought the bear cub to Britain at the beginning of World War I and named her after the city of Winnipeg, leaving her at London Zoo when his unit left for France. Milne's introduction to his 1924 book When We Were Very Young traces the origin of the second half of the name to a swan: "Christopher Robin, who feeds this swan in the mornings, has given him the name of 'Pooh.

Answer 6

Winnie came from a bear left at London Zoo at the beginning of WW! by a Canadian Officer who called it Winnipeg and the Pooh came from the name of a black swan that was at the zoo and the Milne family would feed it

Answer 7

Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a Canadian black bear he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday